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I was seized with a guilt that I knew would never leave me, and I knew I didn't deserve to be free of it. I hadn't quite reached the end of my rope, but I was close enough.

— Clarence Thomas My Grandfather's Son (2008)

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I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest.

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